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Attendance Policy.

To clarify the information in the attendance policy below, you will need this kind of verifiable documentation for the following excused absences.

-Religious observation: consult me individually.

-Official university activity: letter from the department or organization. (For example, if you miss class for a football game, I need a letter from the Dept. of Athletics).

-Illness: note from doctor or Rowan's Student Health Center.

-Death of family member or loved one: copy of death certificate, or obituary, if applicable.

-Inclement weather: proof of residential location.

Schedule

Integrated College Composition I
Professor Flanagan
Fall 2008
Sept. 3 - Dec. 15

PLEASE NOTE: This is a tentative schedule of assignments; it is subject to change at any time.

Also note: Please bring both textbooks to class each day, no matter what is planned.

Week One:

Wednesday, Jan. 21
Introduction to the course and to each other.
Distribution of syllabi and schedules.
Discussion of the portfolio system of writing assessment.
Discussion of personal goals.
Explanation of First-Week Essay.
Homework:
1. Purchase the textbook and other materials for the class.
2. Read Introduction to text (pgs. 1-20).
3. First-Week Essay due Sept. 8.

Friday, Jan 23:
Talk about Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.
Discuss reading (pgs. 1-20) and talk about:
Academic writing vs. personal writing.
Homework:
1. First-Week Essay due Monday.
2. Read pgs. 21-24


Week Two:

Monday, Jan. 26:
Our writing processes and writing as a process (pgs. 21-24).
Compose visuals of writing process.
Homework:
1. Read pgs. 25-35.

Wednesday, Jan. 28:
Active reading.
Analyzing texts.
Review Amethyst papers.
Homework:
1. Read pgs. 125-139.
2. Mock intros.

Friday, Jan. 30:
Review mock intros.
Writing paraphrases and summaries.
Homework:
Read pgs. 139-150.


Week Three:

Monday, Feb. 2 (Groundhog Day):
Writing a synthesis (discussion and activity).
Homework:
Read pgs. 150-166.

Wednesday, Feb. 4:
Avoiding plagiarism.
Documenting sources.
Summarizing review and activity.
Homework:
Read pgs. 201-207.

Friday, Feb. 6:
Writing introductions and activity.
Homework:
Write one of each of three types of intros.


Week Four

Monday, Feb. 9:
Distribute first essay assignment.
Getting comfortable with writing assignments, writing tasks.
Pre-writing discussion and activity (outlines, brainstorming, idea generation).
Homework:
Read pgs. 208-226.

Wednesday, Feb. 11:
Development, support, and using examples.
Writing conclusions.
Homework:
Work on First Essay (due Monday).

Friday, Feb. 13 (Friday the 13th):
Five-paragraph essay vs. our essays: a discussion and activity in organization and presentation.
Homework:
First Essay due Monday.
Read pgs. 227-237.


Week Five

Monday, Feb. 16:
Discuss problems you might have had with first essay.
Discuss workshop procedures.
Break into workshop groups to peer-edit essays.
Homework:
Read pgs. 67-76.
Revise essays based on your peers' comments (due end of the semester). Revised drafts are due Oct. 6.

Wednesday, Feb. 18:
Identifying issues.
Exercise with identifying issues.
Homework:
Read pgs. 47-53.

Friday, Feb. 20:
Identifying claims.
Activity from Troubleshooting Guide for Writers.
Homework:
Read pgs. 167-181.


Week Six

Monday, Feb. 23:
Ethos and pathos.
Homework:
Read pgs. 181-200.

Wednesday, Feb. 25:
Logos and fallacies.
Homework:
Read pgs. 83-89

Friday, Feb. 27:
Developing a thesis.
Homework:
Read pgs. 89-104


Week Seven

Monday, Mar. 2:
Contexts for theses.
Distribute Second Essay assignment.
Homework:
Pre-write for Second Essay assignment.

Wednesday, Mar. 4:
Style faux pas (wordiness, ambiguity, adverbs, etc.).
Review pre-writing activities.
Homework:
Second essay due Monday.

Friday, Mar. 6:
Review style faux pas.
TGFW activity.
Review issues for second essay.
Homework:
Second essay due Monday.


Week Eight

Monday, Mar. 9:
Workshop Millennial Essay.
Homework:
Revise essays based on your peers' comments (due end of the semester). Revised drafts are due to me Oct. 27.

Wednesday, Mar. 11:
Dissection of Beowulf essay.
Transitions in Beowulf essay.
Activity emulating transition lesson.

Friday, Mar. 13 (Friday the 13th):
Discuss 3rd essay assignment and social norms.
Pre-writing in class.
Review formal citations.
How to add length to an essay.
Homework:
Develop rough outline of next paper

Week Nine - Spring Break

Week Ten

Monday, Mar. 23:
Talk about other kinds of intros using samples from essays in book.
Practice these introductory mechanisms.
Academic Search Premier: What is it? And how to use it.
Homework:
Read bell hooks p. 294-306

Wednesday, Mar. 25:
Analyze two lines of logic from GRE study site.
Discuss bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress.
Homework:
Find fallacies in assigned line of logic.

Friday, March 27:
Distribution of Halloween candy.
Read and discuss sample essays from NYT Magazine.
Homework:
Read Mark Edmundson.


Week Eleven

Monday, Mar. 30:
Review HW from Wed.
Review p. 105-122 (using sources)
Look at rhetoric in campaign ads.
Homework:
Continue reading Edmundson.

Wednesday, April 1:
Discuss Edmundson.
Address grammar issues.
Homework:
Bring in an article of at least 700 words.

Friday, April 3:
Activity: rewriting article using different tones, purposed, and audiences.
Homework:
Finish paper.

Week Twelve

Monday, April 6:
Review workshop procedures.
Workshop 3rd paper.
Homework:
Read Jean Kilbourne
Revise essays based on your peers' comments (due end of the semester). Revised drafts are due to me Nov. 17.

Wednesday, April 8:
Review papers before handing them back.
In-class revisions and individual attention.
Homework:
Finish Kilbourne.

Friday, April 10:
Kilbourne reading quiz.
Discuss Kilbourne and her rhetoric.
Assign final paper.
Homework:
Pre-write for final paper.


Week Thirteen

Monday, April 13:
Discuss transitions and look at examples on Web site.
“Pass the paragraph” transition activity.
Homework:
Read Malcolm Gladwell for Monday.

Wednesday, April 15:
Discuss portfolio contents and procedure.
Discuss reflective essay assignment.
Review conclusion techniques as seen in TSG.
Harper’s Weekly summarization activity.
Homework:
Continue reading Gladwell
Work on final essay

Friday, April 17:
Return Amethyst Papers and discuss problems.
In-class revisions and individual attention.
Homework:
Research for final essay.

Week Thirteen

Monday, April 20:
Gladwell reading quiz.
Discuss Gladwell.
Make Gladwell outline.
Analysis of Hugh Gallagher essay.
Homework:
Work on final essay.

Wednesday, April 22:
William Saffire: On Language and Grammar Gremlins
OED Words of the year.
Come up with Jeopardy review questions.
Homework:
Final essay due Monday.

Friday, April 24:
TBD


Week Fourteen

Monday, April 27:
Final workshop.
Hand back and review Social Norms Essay.
Homework:
Come to class with part of reflective essay done.

Wednesday, April 29:
Time in class to work on and discuss reflective essay.
Individual attention.
Share ideas.
Homework:
Finish reflective essay for Dec 8th
Portfolio due Dec. 8th

Friday, May 1:
Review and hand back final papers.
Jeopardy review game.
Homework:
Portfolios due Monday.

Week Sixteen

Monday, May 4:
Portfolios due. Discuss their progress and completion.
Read some reflective essays in class.
Review CAP Center assignment.
Write grade justifications.

Wednesday, May 6:
Class canceled.
Work on CAP Center assignment.

Friday, May 8:
Discuss CAP Center assignments. Read in class?
How will course content be applied to our majors? Our careers?
Review again portfolio grading procedure.
End with Billy Collins poem.

Monday, May 11:
Conferences in adjunct office.